Chapter 1: What are the initial reactions to the Cadillac F1 car launch?
Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 Podcast with Matt and Tommy. Cadillac 11th team reveal. That's right, we're back for another car launch. It is 3.24 in the morning and we have seen the Cadillac which has been revolved? That's not a word. Revealed.
Revealed.
During a Super Bowl ad that we did not see because, first and foremost, it came out about 45 minutes earlier than it was planned to. They put the Cadillac in a box and they were like, here's the timer. In Times Square.
Chapter 2: What are the details of the Cadillac's car reveal event?
Yep. So we knew when it was going to be released and yet... That's not synced up with their Super Bowl ad because the Super Bowl apparently has gone quicker than expected. And so, lo and behold, as if with almost every F1 team, myself and Tommy get ready for a car launch at a certain time and then a video just drops. Oh, hit welcome to the team.
Yeah, I did wonder when they announced it was going to be during an advert. I was like, surely that just plays... They're not going to be able to get the exact time. But then for them to then do social media messaging going, all systems go, 10.30 in Times Square. I was like, well, okay, now we've got a specific time.
So even if it's going to be at least around then, but for it to be nearly an hour before is crazy.
Okay, let's get into our first thoughts on the livery. Or should we say two halves of a livery? Oh, that's right, Cadillac. We see you with the... 1999 BAR. Yeah, they really took the BAR and went, let's make it slightly less fun. Let's do a BAR livery and have two very bland colours.
Without the colour.
Overall, look, I am... You might have seen our social media clip reacting to it. I was quite excited by the fact that they've gone for a little half-and-half livery, which didn't need to do that. Not sure what the reasoning behind them doing it was. But on closer inspection, and also with Tommy having shown me a concept livery that involved yellow for Cadillac, which is what they do in WECC,
They could have gone a lot more beautiful with the colouring, which I'm in complete agreement of. I don't think it's a bad livery. I don't think it looks clean, right? I like clean. I don't like blocks, which they haven't really gone for. So in that sense, yeah, it's a – can I call it good? I don't know what I want to put. It's professional.
It's a professional livery.
It's professional. However, I am dearly concerned about what this car will actually look like, considering these are renders, these are renders, what it actually will look like in an overcast day at Silverstone. Will it just look like a cloud?
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Chapter 3: How does the Cadillac livery compare to past designs?
That's crazy. Next question. People on Patreon remember Longo1996. Did Cadillac not understand the concept of time when determining when to release the commercial? Now, this one, obviously, they've wanted to go big. We all know just how expensive Super Bowl commercials are. So they've put a huge amount of money into announcing their car. Um...
And they've told the world what time this is going to happen. They've put a car in a box and said, see you, or is it 10.30?
10.30 Eastern time. Eastern time. Which was, yeah, which is now. I think I already see the car half an hour ago.
And then the Super Bowl players went, you know what? Let's have less stoppages. We're so good at Super Bowling. Let's run through this real quick. I imagine they probably factored into a five, 10 minute difference wouldn't matter that much, but it's quite a significantly earlier time than when the box was opening with the car in it.
I mean, I need to go check to see if that, you know, maybe they've released an alternative livery in this box and we've missed it all. But, um, Yeah, I think they may be now learning that, yes, they've tried to get loads of eyeballs on it, but it's not been as easy to sync it all up. But we're used to it as F1 teams, F1 car launches.
They love just popping renders out before they've even shown the car in a two-hour long video. Like Mercedes, for example, we've been speaking about them. We've already seen your car, guys. Why are we doing a team reveal at Silverstone after we've seen your car already?
yeah exactly uh look they probably like now it's been done they probably don't care that much like as much as it is annoying like they still got their super bowl ad they still drop the pictures it's annoying from our side when we're trying to do a watch along and stuff but um you know selfishly i'm sure cadillac are not really thinking about maps
matt p1 told me his watch along how dare they no um and you know they need to get their act together like come on think about our watch along and add a bit of yellow paint come on guys next year's next year's our year we can do this hours and cadillacs year They've actually launched another picture. Formula One have now posted a front view.
To say that the front view is going to be the one that gets seen the most, it does look a bit basic and boring now. Because you don't really see the asymmetric from the front because it's not like a BAR, like you say, like zip straight down the middle. Yeah, it just looks a bit dull.
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Chapter 4: What are the concerns regarding the Cadillac car's appearance?
Even if they are languishing at the back, those two are experienced drivers that are going to get a good amount from the car. So you know that it's not a case of the driver's the problem, which is going to be the thinking behind it. But yeah, as soon as they find a young talent, particularly if they can find an American talent, One of them will make way.
Not everyone is going to be Fernando Alonso and going to stay in for ages. Obviously, Perez and Bottas are on the older end of the kind of grid, but they're not also really, really old like Fernando Alonso. So they've got time in the bank, if you like, to stay for another few years.
Yeah, they're both 36 years old. Same as me. Ancient. you could be on the grid mate I could literally be no one wants to see that my next question Liam Morgan where do you think they'll place in the standings and what will be a good first season
I think just anything from them is a good first season. Genuinely, the expectation is that they will be last. It's going to be incredibly difficult for them. It sounds silly to say, but a good first season is for them to just not be embarrassed, for them to be able to hold their own, beat occasional cars.
I think that their literal best case scenario is that they are like there is no backmarker team and they're in a midfield scrap with all the other midfield teams kind of like what we've seen in years gone by like kind of I know we joke about Alpine and they were in occasional races but like
In kind of recent years, there's not been that one like completely hopeless team that are like miles behind everyone else. So they're kind of like hoping that that's the case again. And they're not just like completely lost by a mile and not scoring a single point. I don't think they will expect that.
too much more than that but you know it is that they've done the right thing in not building their own engine from the start and all that kind of stuff which is going to make things a lot harder i mean you're speaking about engines tommy you know there's all plenty of rumors flying around about the current state of that that lovely little compression ratio and yeah maybe ferrari or maybe we're so back and maybe kind of like or we have no idea and it's all
It's all hearsay, but Tommy, if I hear or see any rumours that are anywhere near pointing towards the fact Ferrari might well have an advantage or back to being all square with the likes of Mercedes, I will share it with you and I will bask in the glory of potentially winning it all. And of course, Cadillac, they can have a few points as well.
but where do i think they'll place honestly if they if they beat an established formula one team in the constructor standings that is a great first season and to beat anyone over the course of a year whether it's by one point or 10 points or however it ends up in the constructors genuinely that would be uh a good season uh from there i remember this when your prediction is big flop and uh
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